Hilde Weström
General Information
Occupation: Architect, Engineer, Interior Designer, Furniture Designer
Date of Birth: January 01, 1912
Birth City: Neisse, Upper Silesia (formerly in Germany, now in Poland)
Birth Country: Germany
Resident City: Berlin
Resident Country: Germany
Notes: Opened own office in 1945 in Berlin, Germany
Archive/Repository: IAWA, Special Collections Newman Library, Ms87-061
Sources: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/specgen/msguide/mgwxyz.htm
Specialties
Subject: Geographical Focus
Description: Berlin, Germany
Subject: Housing
Subject: Child development and educational facilities
Subject: Furniture and children's toys
Jobs
Employer: City of Berlin
Country: Germany
Employer: City of Breslau (today Wroclaw, Poland)
Country: Germany
Employer: private practice
Title: Founder, Architect
City: Berlin
Country: Germany
Collaborators
Name: Hans Scharoum and Winnetow Kampmann
Project: various
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Apprenticeships
Institution: City of Berlin
City: Berlin
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Notes: Inventory in historic buildings and monuments, for the city of Berlin
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Notes: research and design for central covered market, for the city of Breslau (today Wroclaw, Poland)
Awards
No awards on record
Exhibitions
Title: "Interleau"
Description: Exhibition, the design and installation of flexible living spaces
City: Berlin
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Description: Organized and prepared the exhibition of Gerda Rotermund, an artist friend
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Notable Projects
Title: .
Description: Transformation of a bomb shelter into a primary school
City: Berlin
Country: Germany
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Description: Won a national competition for housing for the elderly
Country: Germany
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Description: Joined "Interbau", developed housing for state financed housing
Country: Germany
Description: During the following 30 years Hilde completed over 800 housing units (including condominiums, rental apartments, social housing and private houses) and won numerous design competitions.
Country: Germany
Description: She also began to incorporate kindergarten space into her housing units. In 1953 she designed social housing with a ballet school on the first floor.
Country: Germany
Title: .
Description: Kindergarten and Music School, Berlin-Zehlendorf
Country: Germany
Title: House for Ursula Hanke-Forster a sculptress
City: Berlin
Country: Germany
Description: Late in her career she designed the Ibero - American Institute to the State Library
City: Berlin
Country: Germany
Education
Institution: Technical University, Berlin - Charlottenburg, Germany
Notes: Major professors: Walter Andrea and Heinrich Tessenow
Institution: Technical University, Dresden, Germany
Notes: Major Professors: Hans Freese and Oswin Hempel
Licensing
License: Architect and Civil Engineer
Professional Affiliations
Organization: Chamber of Architects, Germany
Organization: Consultant to the Town Council of Berlin
Organization: Union of Women Architects
Organization: International Union of Women Architects
Organization: School of Thought- Rudolf Steiner
Publications By
No publications by on record
Publications About
Title: "The History of Women Architects"
Notes: exhibition catalogue, Berlin
Title: The History of Women Architects
Author: Sonja Gunther, Christine Jachmann, Helga Schmidt-Thomsen; Michelle Stanley (translator)
Publication: Exhibit Catalog
Publisher: ABC Satz and Druck GmbH
City: Berlin
Notes: This is a catalog published for the exhibit of the UIFA (Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes) . An exhibition of the German Federal Republik Section of the UIFA within the framework of the IBA (International Building Exhibition) in Berlin.